Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1890 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Sneak thieves entered the cottages of Vice-President Morton and Attorney Bliss at Saratoga, on the 18th, and robbed them of SIO,OOO worth of jewelry. Congressman Walker, of Missouri, died at Washington on the *2oth. Fifteen delegates of the National glassblower's association convention presentee* to Chairman Morrill, of the Senate Finance Committee, through Lewis Arrington, president of the association, a request that duties laid by the House bill on glass bottles be retained. Wine and beer bottles, he said, are imported into this country and used in cities where glass factories stand idle, while the foreign goods go by in loads. Small bottles, one ounce and less, are being brought into this country and sold for less money than the home manufacturer pays for the labor which makes them. Republicans' at Washington announce that they will return to Indiana to register, that they may not be debarred from voting. Superintendent Porter said Wednesday that it would be some time before he would be ready to send out the checks for the payment of the enumerators in the State of Indiana. At present he is busily engaged examining the accounts and pay* ing off the enumerators in the large cities East, beginning with New York, and it will probably be at least a month before checks can t>e prepared and sent out for Indiana enumerators. .Congressman Hemphill, of South Carolina, who led the fight of the Democrats in the House against the Lodge erection Bin, said to a correspondent, Thursday afternoon : “So far from being opposed to the election bill, I honestly would like th Senate to pass it, and would like t<j see the bill become a law before the next congres* sional elections. The Farmers’ Alliance is playing such havoc with our party in my State that nothing short of the Lodge hill would rally the party and save us from an overwhelming defeat. I admit that was bitterly opposed to it, hut I now see in t tt»e only hope of my party against complete disintegration and political ruin.” Dr. Mary Walker, the eccentric Washington female, it has been discovered, broke her leg more than a year ago and is -a-eanfigmed gsls,ooo for her medical services during tho war has been introduced in Congress.